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venezuela's vice president says hugo chavez will be able to begin his next temple as president on thursday even if he's too ill to attend the swearing-in ceremonies. and centers for disease control says the flu outbreak in the united states has started early. it's widespread reaching 41 states and causing the deaths of 18 children. lessons from the cliff. this week, the president signed the american tax relief act which restores clinton era rates, extends unemployment insurance for a year and postpones massive budget cuts for two months setting up yet another countdown for yet another induced crisis. here i think are the big lessons from the latest budgetary standoff between the white house and congressional republicans. lesson number one, the so-called fiscal cliff was not a cliff. we intentionally avoided the phrase here fiscal cliff on "up with chris hayes" because it gave the definition for what it meant for a policy. you can't be a little off a cliff or kind of off. you're definitely off. the idea embedded in the metaphor if the president and congress didn't come to an agreement betwe
venezuela's vice president says hugo chavez will be able to begin his next temple as president on thursday even if he's too ill to attend the swearing-in ceremonies. and centers for disease control says the flu outbreak in the united states has started early. it's widespread reaching 41 states and causing the deaths of 18 children. lessons from the cliff. this week, the president signed the american tax relief act which restores clinton era rates, extends unemployment insurance for a year and...
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chavez is still recovering in cuba. he's had four cancer surgeries since 2011. >>> finally, the steroid era backlash may rear its head today when the results from this year's baseball hall of fame vote will be revealed. this was the first chance voters got to weigh in on three of the game's biggest and arguably more controversial steroid stars. barry bonds, roger clemens and sammy sosa. early signs show this men will fall short of the 75% vote needed to enter the hall. bonds and clemens had 15 mvp and cy young awards between them why sosa is one of only seven men to have hit more than 609 home runs. but all three have been linked to performance enhancing drugs in recent years. tainting their chances of getting into cooperstown. there is an assumption this is the year a bunch of writers leave their ballots blank. and it hurts people like jack morris who might be on or dale murphy or craig biggio who should be a lock this year. >>> birthday bash kind of takes on new meaning when the birthday belongs to richard nixon. we'r
chavez is still recovering in cuba. he's had four cancer surgeries since 2011. >>> finally, the steroid era backlash may rear its head today when the results from this year's baseball hall of fame vote will be revealed. this was the first chance voters got to weigh in on three of the game's biggest and arguably more controversial steroid stars. barry bonds, roger clemens and sammy sosa. early signs show this men will fall short of the 75% vote needed to enter the hall. bonds and...
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hugo chavez is reportedly too sick to attend his own inauguration thursday. government officials say he will remain in cuba for cancer treatment and will be sworn in at a later date. opposition groups want him to step down now. wildfires raging in australia. more than 100 homes have been destroyed. more than 300,000 acres of land scorched. the fire so big they could be seen from space. >> heather? >> ainsley thank you so much. have you noticed your paychecks have slunk quite a bit now that the payroll tax cut has expired. it turns out the tax increase wiped out an entire year's worth of wage gains. fox business network diane macedo is here to breakdown the numbers. a real bummer, diane. >> it will be for many. good news most americans got pay raises in 2012. average weekly earnings rose 2.4 percent over the course of the year. the bad news is now that the fiscal cliff deal let the payroll tax cut expire we can kiss the gains good-bye. that's accordling to a new report which shows in only a month the average american worker will lose all of the 2012 gain in we
hugo chavez is reportedly too sick to attend his own inauguration thursday. government officials say he will remain in cuba for cancer treatment and will be sworn in at a later date. opposition groups want him to step down now. wildfires raging in australia. more than 100 homes have been destroyed. more than 300,000 acres of land scorched. the fire so big they could be seen from space. >> heather? >> ainsley thank you so much. have you noticed your paychecks have slunk quite a bit...